First installment for tonight. I started NaNoWriMo yesterday. It’s madness but I can’t help it. The idea of writing for two hours worth of new material per day for a whole month seems like very good discipline to me.
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There are so many reasons why November is bad timing for me but this year I’m going to do it. I’m going to do NaNoWriMo. Here’s the link for my profile. I will be writing under the alias “Cerealboxreader.” I will be attempting to write a 50 000 word novel between Nov. 1 and Nov.
They say you have to paper a wall with rejection slips but I’ve been writing plays for school and novel-length manuscripts for so long, I just don’t submit that often. Perhaps I’m making a mistake. I found out this week that a rejection can sometimes give just the right kind of encouragement. I just got
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Yeeeehaaaaw! I completed the first draft last night. My wonderful husband took my son and I out for Hakka Chinese food to celebrate. The other thing I did to celebrate was read M.T. Anderson’s Whales on Stilts, a hilarious parody of children’s adventure, horror and mystery books. I laughed so hard I ruptured my blubber.
I have a new writing project. I drafted next year’s school play in July, so now it’s time to move on to something bigger. It’s an SF comedy with lots of laughs and suspense aimed at a middle school audience. So far I have written 85 pages. This has been one of the easiest writing
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I have a new writing project this summer. Now that next year’s school play is drafted, it’s time to move on to something bigger. So far I have an outline, character sketches and a lot of ideas about tone for my new kids novel. It’s an SF comedy with lots of laughs and suspense. What
I’ve been reading and critiquing during my summer holidays. The good news is, I have completed a first draft of next year’s musical school play. Okay, time to get back to writing. Happy (summer) reading!
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I attended Ad Astra for the second time this year. ChiZine had a book launch there and I got an autographed copy of Chimerascope by Douglas Smith. He’s a friend of a friend but it was the excerpt he read which convinced me to buy it. So far, it’s a very interesting read. That’s why
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It has been an eventful week. My computer died and I have been spending many sleepless hours figuring out how to do things on a Mac Book Pro that I took for granted on my PC. It was old and used and when it died, I was so glad to receive a ‘spare,’ computer from
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I’ve stopped writing for Digital Journal. It wasn’t just that I was getting paid less than a cent per click. It wasn’t just that the stories which got the most clicks were about nothing important – fad diets anyone? How about rants based on watching TV? The real boot to the head was their best
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